Chucking all the gear into the back of the van, the whole family piled in.
Me, my husband Lee, 37, and our two children, Gracie, 10, and Nate, four, were off for a day at the beach.
Westward Ho! is just a five-minute drive away from our house and it’s the perfect destination to get our surf on.
Lee has been surfing, paddleboarding and doing various other water sports since he was a child, so he’s always wanted to pass that down to our kids.
We first took Gracie and Nate into the sea when they were babies, so they are more than used to it.
‘She can sit on the end of my board,’ Lee suggested when Gracie was young.
Growing up in North Devon, it was quite normal…